Pouteria villamilii (PROSEA)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Introduction |
Pouteria villamilii (Merr.) Baehni
- Protologue: Candollea 9: 318 (1942).
Synonyms
- Sideroxylon villamilii Merr. (1915).
Vernacular names
- Philippines: Villamil nato (general), dolitan (Tagalog).
Distribution
The Philippines (Luzon, Siargao).
Uses
The timber is used as nyatoh for carving, inlaying, cabinet work, picture frames and implements. It is traded as "white nato" together with other Philippine Pouteria species.
Observations
- A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall.
- Leaves evenly distributed, oblong to lanceolate (sometimes ovate), with distinct, laxly reticulate tertiary venation, glabrous on both sides.
- Flowers in up to 7-flowered, axillary clusters, borne on up to 5 mm long pedicels.
- Fruit depressed-globose, up to 5 cm in diameter, glabrous.
P. villamilii occurs in primary forests at low altitudes. The wood is coarser in texture than the wood of P. duclitan and P. macrantha, and is obtainable in limited quantities. It is fairly light, with a density of about 530 kg/m3 at 12% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
317, 480, 484, 486.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)